School Will Be The Death of Me

[Jesse36m3]

Right there with you riding the struggle bus, hopefully it will get better.


I've literally had a full - time job since graduating high school ('07) while a bunch of my friends went to college for 4 years and still haven't found a job yet.


Decided to get my A.S. in electrical technology back in '10 and that helped me get better jobs while working through it full time.


Now, I'm maxed out at my current employer and am going back to finish up my bachelors in electrical engineering, majoring in automation. I feel dead every day, empty and lifeless. Kind of like cruising on auto-pilot. I never really feel awake because I don't get much sleep. Get up for work at 530 and drive an hour to start at 7am. Get out a 3:30, drive an hour to school which starts at 530pm three sometimes four nights a week until 930-10pm. Go home, take a shower, eat dinner then pass out and do it all over again. My girlfriend, whom I live with, broke her ankle two weeks ago. So on top of all that, I have to find time to clean the apartment, cook for her, laundry, etc. Sometimes I have to work Saturdays. My only day to sleep in is Sunday morning and I'm lucky if the neighbors dogs don't start barking at 7am.


halp

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by imaguitar

I didn't know I'd get this much feedback from that complaint of a post LOL

Because you don't know what the word "literally" means, literally. Hence the trolling.

-alex

[Speck]

Originally Posted by imaguitar

Mine is Mechanical Engineering.

We'll there you go then, engineering should be tough because you'll need to be on your shit once what you do costs thousands/millions of dollars if you slack and fuck up. I'm a EE, we got put through the ringer in school (worse than an ME in my school at least) but it's so worth it. You'll stop crying once you make money just pick something you're interested in. Hang in there.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by imaguitar

is literally killing me.

Your literal use of "literally" is literally not literal.


Dammit! Semantic satiation.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Your literal use of "literally" is literally not literal.

It only makes sense that a clickbait thread title like this is created by someone young and still in school. It's pretty much what young people are into these days.

[Special_K]

Originally Posted by Speck

We'll there you go then, engineering should be tough because you'll need to be on your shit once what you do costs thousands/millions of dollars if you slack and fuck up. I'm a EE, we got put through the ringer in school (worse than an ME in my school at least) but it's so worth it. You'll stop crying once you make money just pick something you're interested in. Hang in there.

About 3 months into my job out of school I fucked up on a design and cost my company about 14k... I thought for sure that was my ass, I was seriously ready for my final check and a lousy reference. Thank god my boss was chill as hell about it. He took me to "The Boneyard" to give me a tour of all his failed designs, concepts, prototypes. Gave me a story about hard work and always improving and learning from my mistakes. Now, I'm much more confident in my designs and have moved from making little parts to million dollar machines with only minor hiccups to accompany me.

I tried tallying up how much money was sitting in the boneyard in material, machining, labor, time, etc. I figure it's somewhere to the tune of $35 million just collecting weeds and housing wasps.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Special_K

About 3 months into my job out of school I fucked up on a design and cost my company about 14k... I thought for sure that was my ass, I was seriously ready for my final check and a lousy reference. Thank god my boss was chill as hell about it. He took me to "The Boneyard" to give me a tour of all his failed designs, concepts, prototypes. Gave me a story about hard work and always improving and learning from my mistakes. Now, I'm much more confident in my designs and have moved from making little parts to million dollar machines with only minor hiccups to accompany me.

I tried tallying up how much money was sitting in the boneyard in material, machining, labor, time, etc. I figure it's somewhere to the tune of $35 million just collecting weeds and housing wasps.

I could show you a couple of million dollars in failed production equipment just from pictures currently on my phone. And these were designed by experienced engineers that do nothing but design production equipment (not our engineers).

[SquadRon]

Life is like a arcade. You throw your money inside the machine and hope it comes out with a lot more money otherwise you will just have the joy of pulling the lever. Good luck!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by SquadRon

Life is like a arcade. You throw your money inside the machine and hope it comes out with a lot more money otherwise you will just have the joy of pulling the lever. Good luck!

If you are at an arcade and throwing your money in a machine and hoping to get more out you are in for one disappointing life.

If you are throwing your money in a machine and hoping more money comes out then life is like a casino not an arcade!

[Special_K]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I could show you a couple of million dollars in failed production equipment just from pictures currently on my phone. And these were designed by experienced engineers that do nothing but design production equipment (not our engineers).

That's the thing about production equipment. You have to design something that doesn't exist in any capacity that only serves a super specific purpose and hope that it integrates with all the other crazy ass equipment around it... A few production workers here call our line "Rube" haha

[SquadRon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

If you are at an arcade and throwing your money in a machine and hoping to get more out you are in for one disappointing life.

If you are throwing your money in a machine and hoping more money comes out then life is like a casino not an arcade!

But a casino would not work in this sense unless we are talking about circus circus that place is full of wild games anyhow I mention arcade, because of the numerous games asides the slot machine.

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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by SquadRon

But a casino would not work in this sense unless we are talking about circus circus that place is full of wild games anyhow I mention arcade, because of the numerous games asides the slot machine.

"Life is like a arcade. You throw your money inside the machine and hope it comes out with a lot more money
"

The games that do not give you more money for the money you put in? As I said you are going to be very disappointed if you are throwing money into arcade games with the hopes of making more money from them.

[SquadRon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

"Life is like a arcade. You throw your money inside the machine and hope it comes out with a lot more money
"

The games that do not give you more money for the money you put in? As I said you are going to be very disappointed if you are throwing money into arcade games with the hopes of making more money from them.

Are you playing games with me? lol

Life is a game. I know.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by SquadRon

Are you playing games with me? lol

Life is a game. I know.

Nope no game here! Your analogy of life being like an arcade but making money just does not work. In fact an arcade is a horrible place to spend money since you get very little value for the dollar and although very fun they can suck you dry very quickly.

Now, like I said, if you use the same analogy but replace arcade with casino or slot machine then it works. You are still wasting money but at least you can now "hope" to win and have fun while doing so.